Siding-gage



(No Model.)

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SIDING. GAGE.

No. 351,722. Patented 0015.26, 1886..

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. UNITED [STATES PATENT OFFICE,

WILLIAM E. TRUEBLOOD, OF MARYVILLE, MISSOURI.

SlDlNG-GAGE.

QPECIFICATION forming part ofv Letters Patent No. 351,722, dated October 26, 1886.

Application filed June 3, 1886. Serial No. 204,052. (No model.)

or figures of reference marked thereon, which. fOI'lll a part'of this specification.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of this invention, and is a vertical section through the sidinggage and three boards. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview.

My invention relates to siding gages for weather-boarding; and it consists inthe construction and novel combination of parts, as

hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims. t

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates the body of the sidinggage, which is provided with the lower narrow shoulder, B, on its inner face-edge, and the upper wider shoulder, (3, located nearly midway between the ends of the gage-body.

' This upper wider shoulder, O, is grooved in of said narrow portion F, and seen its upper edge at D, and this groove D is intersected at its outer end by a short rectangular groove or recess, E, made in the body A,in the inner edge of the same and near the top of the wider shoulder. The narrow integral arm F of the body A is also provided with a longitudinal rectangular (in cross-section) groove, G, which is provided with a metal wear-plate, lr, at its upper end, against which the adjustable angular slide-plate H abuts when the latter is raised to its limit.

The narrow integral arm F, or upper portion of the body of the gage sprovided with a longitudinal slot or reces extending entirely through it, and the out'e cc of this slot is surrounded and protected by aslotted metal wearplate, J, which islet into a seat, K, in the edge in place by screws LL. The groove G is pened at each end of the recess I at MM, rin shoulders or stops P P, for the rectangular rigid head Q, of the screw R, secured to the longer upper arm, S, of the angular slide-plate H. The

screw Rprojects through the slot T in the metal wear-plate J, and is secured to its adjustment by a milled nut, U, screwed upon the projecting end of said screw R, and hearing, when turned up, tightly against the face of theslotted metal wear-plate. The upper wider shoulder, 0, is provided with a vertical longitudi nal hole or here, V, which extends some little distance downward therein, and this bore V is providedwith a metal tube or lining, V, to receive the spiral spring W, which encircles the lower reduced end of the shouldered rod W, which bears normally against the under face of the horizontal'portion Wof the angular slideplate H, said spring W and rod W operating to move the angular slide upwardly when the thumb-nut is loosened.

On one face, along the inner edge between the upper and lower shoulders, the body of the gage is provided with ascale, a, of inches, and the outer face of the lower shorter arm of the angular slide-plate H is marked with a scale showing fractions of an inch.

Near its lower end the body of the sidinggage is provided with-a flat metal spring, Y, which is secured in place by screws YY, and projects a short distance above the lower narrow shoulder, B, in order that it may he slipped under the inner face of a weather-board that has already been nailed to place on the studding, it being necessary to secure the first or lower weather-board in place before commencing the use of the siding-gage.

A short distance above the lower narrow shoulder, B, the body A of the gage is bored through horizontally from its outer to its inner edge. end nearest to spring Y, is tapering from a shoulder, Y near themiddle of the bore. The rear portion of thebore is niadelarger,to form a shoulder, Z, for the forward end of a spiral spring, Z, which encircles the tapering por tion of the pike Z and abuts against the shoulder Z of the same.

Z designates a wear-plate, which is let into the outer edge of the body of the gage near the lower end of the same, and forms the seatfor the outer stem portion, a, of the pike Z: This pike Z is provided with ahead, b, on which to strike with a hammer, to drive the pike into the weather-board last put in place, and after the spring Y has been pushed up under the The front end of the bore X, or that lower edge of said weather-board. The angular slide must be moved up or down, to suit hoards of different widths, and looked in place after the adjustment by the milled tliunllmniit. 5 Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, lS-" 1.. The combination, with the shouldered and grooved body having the spring-pressed rod seated in a longitudinal bore in the upper shoulder of the body, of the angular slide, the screw passed through the slot in the upper narrow portion of the body, and the milled nut on the projecting end of said screw, substantially 15 as specified.

.2. The combination, with the shouldered gage-body and the angle-slide with screw and thumb-nut, of the spring-pressed rod seated in the body of the gage and bearing against the under face of the horizontal portion of the am 20 gle-slide, substantially as specified.

vIn testimony whereofI a-flix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

B. A. DUNN, ELMER A. VINSONHUBER. 

